حَىٌّ

Living, having life, alive, or quick; opposite of مَيِّتٌ [or مَيْتٌ]; (S, Mgh, * Msb, * K;) and ↓ حَيَوَانٌ is synonym with حَىٌّ [as meaning having animal life]: (IB:) diminutive of the former ↓ حُيَىٌّ: (Msb:) and plural أحْيَاءٌ. (Msb, K.) When you say of a person, لَيْسَ بِحَىٍّ, you mean that he is dead: (Lh:) but مِنْهَا ↓ ضُرِبَ ضَرْبَةً لَيْسَ بِحَاىٍ, (Lh, K,) [in the CK ضَرَبَ, and] in [some of] the copies of the K, erroneously, بِحَاءٍ, (TA,) means [He was struck a blow] in consequence of which he will not live: (Lh, K: *) like as the saying لَا تَأْكُلْ كَذَا فَإِنَّكَ مَارِضٌ means Thou wilt be sick if thou eat such a thing. (Lh, K.) Accord. to ISh, one says, أَتَانَا حَىُّ فُلَانٍ, meaning Such a one came to us in his life [-time]: and سَمِعْتُ حَىَّ فُلَانٍ يَقُولُ كَذَا, meaning I heard such a one say thus in his life [-time]: (TA:) [or the former may mean Such a one himself came to us: and the latter, I heard such a one himself say thus: for] حى [i. e. حَىّ as a prefixed noun] is sometimes redundant, like ال and ذُو: (Ham p. 308:) [and] IB says that حَىُّ فُلَانٍ means Such a one himself. (TA.) And they say, أَهْلِكَ ↓ كَيْفَ أَنْتَ وَحَيَّةُ, i. e. How art thou, and those remaining alive of thy family? (TA.)

Applied to God, Deathless. (Er-Rághib.)

Possessing the faculty of growth, as an animal, and as a plant: (Er-Rághib:) and, applied to a plant, fresh, juicy, or succulent, and growing tall. (TA.)

[Sensitively alive;] possessing the faculty of sensation. (Er-Rághib.)

(assumed tropical:) [Intellectually alive;] possessing the faculty of intellect. (Er-Rághib.) [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) A Muslim; like as مَيِّتٌ means an unbeliever. (TA.)

(assumed tropical:) Lively, as meaning free from grief or sorrow. (Er-Rághib.)

(assumed tropical:) Whole, sound, or unbroken. (L and TA in article صأب.)

أَرَضٌ حَيَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) Fruitful land; or land abounding with herbage; (K, TA;) like as ارض مَيْتَةٌ means unfruitful land. (TA.)

الشَّمْسُ حَيَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) The sun is, or was, of a clear colour, unaltered by approaching the place of setting; as though its setting were regarded as death: (TA:) or still bright and white: or still hot and powerful: but the former of these two meanings is the more probable. (Mgh.)

نَارٌ حَيَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) [A live, or burning, fire. (AHn.)

طَرِيقٌ حَىٌّ (assumed tropical:) An apparent, or a distinct, road or way: (K:) plural أَحْيَاءٌ. (TA.)

-A2- See also حَيَّةٌ, first sentence.

-A3- [A tribe] of the Arabs: (S:) the children, or descendants, of one father or ancestor, whether many or few: and a شَعْب comprising قَبَايءِل: (Az, TA:) or a قَبِيلَة of the Arabs: (Msb:) or a بَطْن of the بُطُون of the Arabs: (K, TA:) plural أَحْيَاءٌ. (S, Msb, K.)

-A4- The vulva, or external portion of the organs of generation, of a woman. (Az, K. See also حَيَاءٌ, of which حَىٌّ is also said to be a plural) Hence, سَعَفُ الحَىِّ, applied by an Arab of the desert to The paraphernalia of a bride. (Az, TA.)

-A5- لَاحَىَّ عَنْهُ means لَامَنْعَ مِنْهُ, (Ks, K, *) i. e. [There is no forbiddance of him; or] nothing is forbidden him. (Fr.)

-A6- لَا يَعْرِفُ الحَىَّ مِنَ اللَّىِّ He knows not, or will not know, what is true from what is false; (IAar, K, Har p. 236;) and so الحَوَّ من اللَّوِّ: (TA:) or the حَوِيَّة [or winding gut, &c.,] from the twisting of the rope: (K:) or overt speech from covert: or the living from the dead: or the act of turning round, or winding, [see حَوَاهُ, (in article حوى,) of which حَىٌّ is a verbal noun,] from the act of twisting. (Har ubi suprà.)

-A7- The act of collecting. (TA. [But in this and some other senses it is a verbal noun of حَوَى: see 1 in article حوى.])

-A8- أَحْيَاءٌ as plural of حَاءٌ: see article حوأ.